Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

C ricket in Africa has its most significant presence in the south of the continent, and pockets of growth and progress in the east. But now, for the first time, the west will have a presence at a ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two scientists from South ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). While the specifics are ...

Sister Suellen Tennyson, the Roman Catholic nun and Kenner native who was kidnapped and held captive for nearly five months in West Africa in 2022, died Wednesday, the Clarion Herald reported ...

The military juntas of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed a treaty of confederation Saturday bringing together 72 million people into the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). It’s a decision, they ...

Weeks before, on July 9, the regional Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) bloc had appointed Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu as chairman. In his speech, ...

How Nigeria's women put West Africa on the cricketing map and at the Under-19 World Cup. With performance and participation, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, their mindsets and value systems.